The Fantasy Review’s list of 5 Urban Fantasy Books with Heart-Pounding Action.
Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1) by Richelle Mead
From the blurb:
When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California…
Stray (Shifters, #1) by Rachel Vincent
From the blurb:
I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.
Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escapedthe pressure to continue my species and carved out a normallife for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.
I’d been warned about Strays; werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female and fertile. I fought him off, but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared…
Nice Dragons Finish Last (Heartstrikers, #1) by Rachel Aaron
From the blurb:
As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code: keep quiet, don’t cause trouble, and stay out of the way of bigger dragons. But this meek behavior doesn’t fly in a family of ambitious magical predators, and his mother, Bethesda the Heartstriker, has finally reached the end of her patience…
Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, #1) by Faith Hunter
From the blurb:
Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she’s been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katies’s Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who’s killing other vamps…
Trick of the Light (Trickster, #1) by Rob Thurman
From the blurb:
Now you see it… Now you don’t… Now you’re history.
There are demons in the world. Monsters. Creatures that would steal your soul. You might hide under your covers at night and pretend all’s right with the world, but you know. Even if you don’t want to admit it…Las Vegas bar owner Trixa Iktomi deals in information…
